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"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

Siegfried Sassoon, English Poet

Acting, Soldiers

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"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

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"I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed."

"I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation."

"I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it."

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"Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans."

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"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."

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